Lunch & Dinner

We eat lots of cabbage, the most beautiful amongst the cruciferous vegetables are broccoli and red cabbage in my opinion.. On the photo a red cabbage salad with a good dressing with lemon flavor, massage the dressing into the cabbage makes it extra juicy. A salad that is good to a lot of thing, yesterday we were in Bergsjön and had a barbecue with friends, I made a red-cabbage salad and ate some barbecue chicken to the salad . Always happy when I split a red cabbage head in the middle, so beautiful pattern. The spinach in the salad is grown in our garden, it tastes extra good. Have a great time in the sunshine

Beautiful red cabbage

Spinach from our garden

Red cabbage salad with a taste of lemon was last modified: May 19th, 2018 by tina

Beetroot has such a beautiful color, if you mix it with coconut milk, the color appears even more. The beetroot taste is really delicious combined with lemon, ginger and horseradish. This soup it is good to eat cold as well. Healthy and beautiful, a treat for both the eye and the body.

Autumn soup and Summer weather how does that go together? I made my autumn soup because I was asked to have some of my recipes in a health / cookbook. I was contacted last autumn by Wataru, who lived in Singapore, who was going to write a book of health. He had made a health journey with a change of diet and he would like to inspire others to a better health. He asked to have 4 of my recipes, he found me at Instagram. Fun. Now he will make a second book and want to have some of my recipes, one of them is my autumn soup so I tried the recipe again. I also made a beetroot soup that will be included in the book.

Today, I ate shrimp salad for lunch, but it was not as colorful as my fine rainbow salad in the picture.

Sometimes I see the dishes as a picture in front of me, seeing different compositions with patterns and colors and shop the food for it. Sometimes I use what’s available at home. But always when shopping, my eye looks for good, beautiful and colorful vegetables. How do you think when shopping your food? Do you like rainbow salad?

Lovely spring is coming, we had lunch outside today. A little cold, but with a jacket on and sheepskin under my butt it was really nice, the sun was shining. We ate the leftovers from yesterday, I promised to share recipes, I cooked a good meatstew and ate some mixed salad, red cabbage, ruccola, red onion, celery, avocado and our home-made sauerkraut. The first photo on the plate is from yesterday, below photo from today’s lunch.

Made an anti-inflammatory soup and it became very tasty, a lot of garlic, fresh turmeric and ginger, all these spices are anti-inflammatory. Cooked it together with healthy vegetables, such as Jerusalem artichoke that is rich of inulin which gives good prebiotics for your gut bacteria. Very good to eat after a walk in the cold weather.

We are planning to build a tiny house on our back yard, I will have it as a studio but we are preparing for kitchen and toilet so that we can live there later. Both me and my husband are artists, which can be financially difficult sometimes, we both have other part-time jobs that we enjoy, but we think that when our children move in a few years (3-4years maybe 😄) we will move out to the tiny house. Our house has 5 rooms and a large living room so we think we will have the living room as a studio and build a door to the rest of the house, and rent rooms to students. Then we may not have to keep our other jobs. Live cheap and get some extra income. The most important thing for us is that we want free time to work with what we want. What do I want to do then?

I’ve started exercise with a PT, It feels amazing 😄 During the past year, I’ve been exercising extremely little because I have a frozen shoulder. But if I’m honest, I’ve not been exercising so much for the last 30 years. 🤤 So it’s time to start now. In 2016 I did a little try but then my shoulder started to hurt. Have tried to get started excercising a few more times over the years but never hade the pleasure and routine. Have worked much to improve my health for the past 2 years, changed diet dropped nearly 20 kg and reached my goal weight and has meditated and exercised mindfulness. But now it’s time to take the excercising to a new level. My PT Emelie sets the bar at just the right degree to challenge my balance, strength and pain and makes me feel good 😄

Is color on food important to you?
Color is an important ingredient in my eating. I look a lot at my food and I am very happy when it’s strong and beautiful colors 💚 So color is very important to me, but also taste and nutrition the food has. I like to eat organic vegetables growing abow earth as much as possible, because I want as stable blood sugar as possible. Of vegetables I eat a lot of cabbage both because it is useful, cheap and local farmed. Fat I eat most coconutoil, avocado and olives and what protein i eat it has changed the last time. For the past 16 years I have eaten beans and fish, a year ago I started eating organic chicken and a month ago organic meat, maybe you wonder why? I have been very tired for the last 2 1/2 years, thought that I was little burned out after a long period of work I had and it has probably been true, but 1 1/2 years ago I had a test of my tyroid and TSH value is hight and I have low metabolism. I have been struggling and thinking that I will fix it with meditation, dietary supplements and diet. But did not get any improvement. Have read a lot and come to the conclusion that I want to try to eat meat. The thyroid needs to work optimally, has also had a lot of iron deficiency. So since 1 month back, I eat a little grass fed beef and drink bone broth , feeling a bit stronger. We will see what it does with my health. In January, I eat AIP diet (Autoimmune paleo) to reduce inflammation in the body.
Today I ate meatballs made from meat from green farms that have gras fed organic meat to the pink cauliflower and our homemade sauerkraut that is very good, sauerkraut made from red cabbage I think it. is better, think it’s the color that makes it 🙌

You might wonder how to make a world record soup and how the idea is born to this odd world record.

I stood and looked into our fridge, saw that we have a lot of cruciferous vegetables in different varieties, time to make a healthy soup was my thought. I started to count how many sorts of cruciferous vegetables we have. Wow I think this will be a world record soup 😀😅😂. Calling my dear man who is in the store and asking him to look for some other sort of cruciferous vegetables ( he found 2 more) it should be a record, it’s important to go all in.

Well how many sorts from cruciferous vegetables do you think I have in the soup?
I am curious, how many do you think?
The answer is below. Have a nice day 🙌😘